Re: [all better] Re: regression: massive trouble with fpu rework

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>]

On Sun, 28 Jun 2015, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Sun, 2015-06-28 at 12:06 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > It is just that this kind of breakage should not be subtle if we can help
> > it, because people will use a crippled system for years without noticing...
> 
> If you can use it without noticing for years, it ain't crippled, or?  My
> point being that severity seems more akin to the box having a zit behind
> its left ear, in which case lobotomizing it seems a tad extreme.

Noted.  However if it does boot with cpuid limited (and we don't "unlimit"
it somehow) on a recent processor, at *best* the user paid good money for a
lot of stuff that is going to not be used to enhance system performance and
system security.

It is not nice to the user to just limp along silently about this.

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  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh